Bigotry Determined Webster’s New
World Dictionary defines “bigot” as “a person who holds blindly and
intolerantly to a particular creed, opinion, etc.” and “bigotry” as “the
behavior, attitude, or beliefs of a bigot.”

Police State Thomas Kachadurian’s column might get the facts right but misses the story.

Oppose The Shell Game Is this a
Shell Game? As a Democrat, I support increased taxes on motor fuels and
vehicles to provide funding for our transportation infrastructure.

Sugars On The Way Senator Patrick
Colbeck from Canton introduced a bill and the Senate passed it allowing
schools and Girl & Boy Scout troops to have up to 3 bake sales per
week.

What to cut?... Time
to talk deficit. Clinton left a budget surplus of over $200 billion.
George Bush left a trillion dollar deficit.

Blind lawmakers... Lou
Ann McKimmy decries the 182 bills passed in Michigan’s fall 2012
session in her lame duck outrage letter. Her issue seems to be there was
no discussion on the bills and there was no time to read and understand
them within the given time period.

Mckimmy would
have credence had she wrote a similar letter after ObamaCare passed in
the dead of night with no discussion and no time to read it.

Capital idea... Yes to the three C’s (re: Rick Coates’ article on making the region a Culinary, Cultural and Craft Farming capital).

The truth about Israel... WORDS!
How easy it is for them to be accepted as inflammatory, baring the view
of the writer’s heart. Recent letters used the term “anti-Semitic” to
describe critics of Israel, as if that gave their words weight. Being
Jewish, I saw “anti-Zionist.”

Missing the mark... I
couldn’t let Stephen Tuttle’s “December 26” column slip by without
comment. Tuttle states: “Christmas Day is the focal point of the giving
season for most of us. And the endpoint.”

Excuse
me, but what is this based on?

Those wondrous women... A few hundred years ago, Edmund Spenser wrote about women: “Such wondrous forms ought rather worshipped be than dared be loved by men of mean degree.”

Had
Spenser been writing in contemporary America he might have penned,
“Such wondrous forms ought rather worshipped be than menaced by
Republicans of mean degree."

Homestead’s Position Disputed Thank
you to the Express for the recent news item about ten local, state, and
national organizations that joined together in a statement calling on
The Homestead Resort and the Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality to work together to correct the problem of incompletely-treated
wastewater spray blowing into an area of Sleeping Bear Dunes National
Lakeshore, rendering it unavailable for public use. Here
is just one clarification...

Done With Snyder Governor
Snyder lowered taxes on well-off businesses while raising nearly
everyone else’s taxes, undermining both education and the labor
movement, which together created Michigan’s strong middle class. His
actions also dismantled protections for our priceless Great Lakes
shorelines...

Gerrymandering is Alive I
have major disagreements with Stephen Tuttle’s column from March 17th.
Let’s start with an agreement that conservatives do control the majority
of the congressional districts and state legislatures, but let’s also
tell the real reason...

Benishek No Environmentalist For
Dan Benishek to say he is responsible for preserving a natural wonder
(Sleeping Bear Preservation Act) is akin to Al Gore saying he invented
the Internet...

CORRECTION: In
the March 17 issue, we mistakenly identified the Holiday Inn as “best
deck scene” in the Traverse City Best area listings. In fact, their new
name is West Bay Beach, a Holiday Inn Resort.